FinTech North Newcastle Forum

FinTech North returns to Newcastle for our latest seminar, which is a fringe event as part of Newcastle Start Up Week.
Join us for a breakfast seminar with a range of speakers including Paid who are a north east based FinTech and one of only 10 UK FinTechs who have been going through the Barclays Techstars programme in recent months.

FinTech Skills - The Roles of Universities & Businesses

FinTech North Manchester Forum, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. A discussion focused on the subject of skills, including speakers from new and established organisations in the Greater Manchester region, as well as senior representatives from MMU.

Speakers at the sold-out FinTech North Leeds event yesterday addressed the challenges and opportunities for the sector in the region and beyond. The ‘perception gap’ – where the vast assets of Leeds, the North, and elsewhere outside of London are not known or under-appreciated or are seen as too far away – can cause lost opportunities, according to Henri Murison, Director of the Northern ...Read More

Important bit of advice from @Market_Gravity: don't reinvent the wheel. If you have one novel feature, that's enough. Go where your customers already are, and are currently transacting – don't make them come to you. #FTNLeeds19

Alex Cole, @Market_Gravity poses an interesting question – "if drug dealers don't need a log in to transact and reach a lot of people, why do you? Hide in plain sight! Use tools that are readily available in the first place – you don't need separate transaction tools" #FTNLeeds19

"Hackers need to do customer service just like anyone else – most of their victims don't know how to buy a bitcoin, for example. So they have to be walked through the process to even buy the ransom in the first place" – Alex Cole, @Market_Gravity#FTNLeeds19pic.twitter.com/yhiLYdveSR

"Interactions between humans & non humans will become closer. Banks & FinTechs need to work together to develop virtual bots of future. It seems frightening now, but the tech will mature to make virtual assistants much more real & advanced" – Armin Eiber, @BJSSLtd#FTNLeeds19

Armin Eiber, @BJSSLtd delivers our Champagne Keynote. His advice for established banks? "Review your strategy & operating model to look into areas of market you're currently not working on, identify differentiators, and work with FinTechs to do this – it's a win-win" #FTNLeeds19pic.twitter.com/8sHzKUZrkf

A push vs pull debate in our #RegTech panel: would firms rather report to the regulator, or have regulators extract the data directly? Tom Simpson from @Yorkshire_BS says latter is more efficient, & could become reality as firms get more used to working with APIs #FTNLeeds19